One NeatherRealm employee, who remains anonymous for job security, says they had to use real life reference material to get the gore just right.

“You’d walk around the office and one guy would be watching hangings on YouTube, another guy would be looking at pictures of murder victims, someone else would be watching a video of a cow being slaughtered."

It got so bad that the individual in question had to go to therapy for violent dreams, and come out diagnosed with PTSD.

Apparently he's not alone, because other NeatherReam staff have reported they left suffering similar issues.

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Wow, that's fucked up. I've been saying for years that NetherRealm has been taking things too far in terms of Gore and Violence, some of those fatalities are downright demented. And now we learn that they have to watch real life brutality and violence videos for reference purposes, that is just sick.

shikamaru317 said:Wow, that's fucked up. I've been saying for years that NetherRealm has been taking things too far in terms of Gore and Violence, some of those fatalities are downright demented. And now we learn that they have to watch real life brutality and violence videos for reference purposes, that is just sick.

Exactly what I was thinking. I'm beginning to not wanna play Mortal Kombat 11 anymore.

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CaptainExplosion said:

But I don't think they expected it to go so far as to look up YouTube lynchings and cattle slaughter.

They d be lucky if they only had to watch violence on youtube. Im not sure, but i dont think there are public executions on yt.

I think about 4 or 5 years back someone uploaded Gadhafi's death to YouTube though.